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Weekend box office report: 17-19 September 2021

1. Shang Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings

Shang-Chi, the master of weaponry-based Kung Fu, is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organization.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
  • Director(s): Destin Daniel Cretton
  • Writer(s): Dave Callaham, Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham
  • Actors(s): Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
  • Runtime: 132 min
  • Total gross to date: £15,807,592.00
  • Weekend gross: £2,362,692.00
  • Number of cinemas: 664
  • Site average: £3,558.00
  • Country of origin: USA/Aus
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -34
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.4/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
  • Metacritic: 71/100

2. Free Guy

In the extremely popular video game, Free City, a NPC named Guy learns the true nature of his existence when he meets the girl of his dreams, a human player. This player's interactions with Guy has massive affects on him, the game, and real world as they play it.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Shawn Levy
  • Writer(s): Matt Lieberman, Zak Penn
  • Actors(s): Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi
  • Runtime: 115 min
  • Total gross to date: £15,327,761.00
  • Weekend gross: £676,999.00
  • Number of cinemas: 596
  • Site average: £1,136.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -2
  • Weeks on release: 6
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.1/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
  • Metacritic: 62/100

3. Respect

The film follows the first two decades of Franklin's life, from being born as a musical prodigy in an affluent African-American family, the repercussions of losing her mother at age 10 to her arduous rise to international musical stardom, while enduring an abusive marriage, ultimately concluding with the recording of her influential live album Amazing Grace (1972).
  • Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
  • Director(s): Liesl Tommy
  • Writer(s): Tracey Scott Wilson, Callie Khouri
  • Actors(s): Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans
  • Runtime: 145 min
  • Total gross to date: £1,174,488.00
  • Weekend gross: £377,395.00
  • Number of cinemas: 611
  • Site average: £618.00
  • Country of origin: USA/Can
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -11
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 68%
  • Metacritic: 61/100

4. Candyman

Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths. She visits a part of the town, where she learns about the legend of the Candyman, a one-armed man who appears when you say his name five times, in front of a mirror. Of course, Helen doesn't believe all this stuff, but the people of the area are really afraid. When she ignores their warnings and begins her investigation in the places that he is rumored to appear, a series of horrible murders begins. Could the legend be true?
  • Genre: Horror, Thriller
  • Director(s): Bernard Rose
  • Writer(s): Clive Barker, Bernard Rose
  • Actors(s): Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Tony Todd
  • Runtime: 99 min
  • Total gross to date: £4,339,536.00
  • Weekend gross: £323,350.00
  • Number of cinemas: 460
  • Site average: £703.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -22
  • Weeks on release: 4
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 79%
  • Metacritic: 61/100

5. The Paw Patrol Movie

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  • Total gross to date: £7,613,081.00
  • Weekend gross: £263,167.00
  • Number of cinemas: 606
  • Site average: £434.00
  • Country of origin: Can/USA
  • Distributor: Paramount
  • Change from last week: -19
  • Weeks on release: 6
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6. Malignant

Twenty-seven long years after the brutal Simion Research Hospital incident, abused Madison wakes up in a hospital in present-day Seattle. But with numbing visions of murder getting in the way of a normal life, more and more, Madison's obscure past emerges, baffling both herself and the local detectives. Are these explicitly violent killings figments of Madison's troubled imagination? Either way, someone, or better yet, something, links the past to the present, demanding closure and blood. Is the bogeyman real?
  • Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
  • Director(s): James Wan
  • Writer(s): James Wan, Ingrid Bisu, Akela Cooper
  • Actors(s): Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young
  • Runtime: 111 min
  • Total gross to date: £952,976.00
  • Weekend gross: £260,115.00
  • Number of cinemas: 524
  • Site average: £496.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -36
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
  • Metacritic: 51/100

7. Jungle Cruise

1916. Dreaming about saving countless lives and having another adventure, the feisty English feminist and doctor of botany, Dr Lily Houghton, embarks on a peril-laden mission to change the world. Along with her fashionable brother, MacGregor, Dr Houghton enlists the help of the arrogant, wisecracking riverboat skipper, Captain Frank Wolff, to guide them through the serpentine Amazon River in La Quila, his swift wooden boat. Now, as the intrepid trio ventures deeper and deeper into the heart of an impenetrable green maze, searching for something that cannot be found, a centuries-old curse and the ruthless aristocrat, Prince Joachim, threaten to put an end to their ambitious plans. And, sooner or later, the jungle always wins. Is it true that the Spanish conquistador, Don Aguirre, was lost in the same God-forsaken part of the world?
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Jaume Collet-Serra
  • Writer(s): Michael Green, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
  • Actors(s): Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramírez
  • Runtime: 127 min
  • Total gross to date: £12,213,202.00
  • Weekend gross: £164,436.00
  • Number of cinemas: 448
  • Site average: £367.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: 0
  • Weeks on release: 8
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 62%
  • Metacritic: 50/100

8. The Croods 2: A New Age

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  • Total gross to date: £9,484,768.00
  • Weekend gross: £156,039.00
  • Number of cinemas: 509
  • Site average: £307.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: 11
  • Weeks on release: 10
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9. Space Jam: A New Legacy

A algorithm named Al G Rhythm captures famed basketball player LeBron James and his son Dom. Al G challenges LeBron to a basketball game against Al's digitized champions. LeBron gets the help of Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes to win the basketball game and get his son back.
  • Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Malcolm D. Lee
  • Writer(s): Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris
  • Actors(s): LeBron James, Don Cheadle, Cedric Joe
  • Runtime: 115 min
  • Total gross to date: £12,575,974.00
  • Weekend gross: £121,785.00
  • Number of cinemas: 426
  • Site average: £286.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -9
  • Weeks on release: 10
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 4.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 26%
  • Metacritic: 36/100

10. Small World

Follows policeman Robert Goc, who becomes engaged in an international investigation to find a girl who was kidnapped by Russian mafia.
  • Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
  • Director(s): Patryk Vega
  • Writer(s): Olaf Olszewski, Patryk Vega
  • Actors(s): Piotr Adamczyk, Enrique Arce, Jim Conway
  • Runtime: 117 min
  • Total gross to date: £106,493.00
  • Weekend gross: £106,493.00
  • Number of cinemas: 195
  • Site average: £546.00
  • Country of origin: Pol
  • Distributor: Kinostar
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.6/10

11. Copshop

Screaming through the Nevada desert in a bullet-ridden Crown Vic, wily con artist Teddy Murretto (Frank Grillo) hatches a desperate plan to hide out from lethal hitman Bob Viddick (Gerard Butler): He sucker-punches rookie officer Valerie Young (Alexis Louder) to get himself arrested and locked up in a small-town police station. But jail can't protect Murretto for long. Viddick schemes his own way into detention, biding his time in a nearby cell until he can complete his mission. When the arrival of a competing assassin (Toby Huss) ignites all-out mayhem, mounting threats force Viddick to get creative if he wants to finish the job and escape the explosive situation.
  • Genre: Action, Thriller
  • Director(s): Joe Carnahan
  • Writer(s): Kurt McLeod, Joe Carnahan, Mark Williams
  • Actors(s): Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder
  • Runtime: 107 min
  • Total gross to date: £431,868.00
  • Weekend gross: £92,702.00
  • Number of cinemas: 436
  • Site average: £213.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: STX Entertainment
  • Change from last week: -53
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 82%
  • Metacritic: 61/100

12. People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan

Since the end of their pirate radio station, life has been quiet for the Kurupt FM boys, but everything is about to change. News reaches them that one of their songs has been used on a popular game show in Japan. They've made it. Their music is reaching hundreds of thousands of people. It's finally time for them to enjoy the fame and fortune that they've always known they deserved. Chabuddy G steps excitedly back into his management role as Grindah, Beats, Steves and Decoy begin their journey to international stardom - But is Japan really ready for Kurupt FM?
  • Genre: Comedy, Music
  • Director(s): Jack Clough
  • Writer(s): Lily Brazier, Asim Chaudhry, Allan Mustafa
  • Actors(s): Allan Mustafa, Hugo Chegwin, Steve Stamp
  • Runtime: 97 min
  • Total gross to date: £2,235,807.00
  • Weekend gross: £64,504.00
  • Number of cinemas: 159
  • Site average: £406.00
  • Country of origin: UK
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -8
  • Weeks on release: 5
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.8/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 82%
  • Metacritic: 63/100

13. The Suicide Squad

In exchange for lighter sentences, just like the anti-hero team in Suicide Squad (2016), a new batch of Belle Reve's meta-humans strike a deal with the cold head of Task Force X, Amanda Waller. This time, her ragtag band of super-powered convicts--Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker, King Shark, Polka-Dot Man, and Ratcatcher 2--venture into the peril-laden South American island nation of Corto Maltese to find the Thinker: the evil scientist in charge of the mysterious Project Starfish. But, as the band joins forces with an old leader of the notorious team, humankind is on the verge of extinction. Can the expendable Suicide Squad stop the new menace that could mean the end of the world as we know it?
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): James Gunn
  • Writer(s): James Gunn
  • Actors(s): Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena
  • Runtime: 132 min
  • Total gross to date: £14,142,378.00
  • Weekend gross: £64,325.00
  • Number of cinemas: 194
  • Site average: £332.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -32
  • Weeks on release: 8
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.2/10
  • Metacritic: 72/100

14. Spirit Untamed

Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
  • Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Elaine Bogan, Ennio Torresan
  • Writer(s): Aury Wallington, Kristin Hahn, Katherine Nolfi
  • Actors(s): Isabela Merced, Marsai Martin, Mckenna Grace
  • Runtime: 88 min
  • Total gross to date: £3,280,403.00
  • Weekend gross: £51,735.00
  • Number of cinemas: 289
  • Site average: £179.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: 2
  • Weeks on release: 8
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 48%
  • Metacritic: 49/100

15. Herself

A young mother escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.
  • Genre: Drama
  • Director(s): Phyllida Lloyd
  • Writer(s): Clare Dunne, Malcolm Campbell
  • Actors(s): Molly McCann, Clare Dunne, Ruby Rose O'Hara
  • Runtime: 97 min
  • Total gross to date: £182,687.00
  • Weekend gross: £47,518.00
  • Number of cinemas: 222
  • Site average: £214.00
  • Country of origin: UK/Ire
  • Distributor: Element Pictures
  • Change from last week: -44
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.0/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
  • Metacritic: 70/100

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